skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the business model, it's important to OpenAI that attempts to get a confidence metric out of LLMs be unsuccessful.

Here's why. If you could have simple LLMs which reported failure when asked a question they can't answer, you're going to send queries to them first. It's going to be like customer support people who answer questions from a menu but can escalate. The first-tier LLM is probably running locally on a 1U server. Harder problems get escalated to a bigger, but local, LLM. Only the really hard ones require buying some OpenAI tokens and asking the really big model.

That approach would reduce OpenAI's revenue by over 90%. What OpenAI wants is for simple models to not work reliably, so you have to use their giant models even on dumb questions.

Pushback on this will come from Google, which has to have a tier-type system to cope with their volume of queries, most of which are dumb.
This gets brought up a lot, so I wrote about it here https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
I’d answer this differently depending on when you ask. 10 years ago (random, but long enough number) I would have said an easy yes. Both GTK and QT would have been acceptable toolkits to use as the cross DE issues weren’t that many and bugs got fixed. Ask me a few years ago and I’d waver. It wasn’t clear how ecosystem friendly GTK4 would be, so I might have optimistically replied the same. But caveat it with a “maybe support both X11 and Wayland.” But ask me now and I’d say to earn the label *Linux native*, you would have to support a lot. GTK4 has proven to not play well with other DEs. The jump to Wayland has caused a fairly significant split in DEs (this year has greatly closed the gap with many showing great progress in supporting Wayland) which means some apps may not work on your DE of choice. And overall, I’d be hesitant to claim that any app is truly *Linux native* because installing an app no longer guarantees that it’ll just work and look and feel right. You’d need to have builds GTK4 & QT, and make sure that they work in both X11 and Wayland for the next few years. When I look for apps nowadays, I tend to append my DE and/or distribution to my search. I currently think it’s more truthful (on Linux) to say that an app is native to a DE instead of to Linux.

Note: I don’t think GTK4 is bad. One of the best parts of the Linux ecosystem is that we have a lot of great DEs that have gradually differentiated themselves by UX. GTK4 not playing well with others is in part due to how different GNOME’s UX is. The toolkit is meant to serve one DE paradigm now and that’s led to higher quality on that DE. The drawback to that diversification is that there is no easy way to support all DEs. Your toolkit drives what you support (unless you go out of your way to fix things that GTK4 isn’t fixing - which is why I put that bit about seeing how KDE issues would be addressed). The word “Linux”, now more than ever before, describes an ecosystem (or kernel) rather than an operating system.
You guessed it right, only CONVENIENCE of prebuilt images are sold, but due to Apple's developer account restrictions, it's actually better to use the official version if you don't want to spend $100 to build the ios version.

In addition, there are indeed two better-known, unofficial patches with paid restrictions removed, one is an experimental version by a third-party developer, which is submitted upstream after testing the functionality, at github.com/siyuan-community/siyuan, and the other is a patch that simply removes the paid functionality. It's at github.com/EightDoor/siyuan.

Also, there was actually a pr from a community developer to add digital certificates to ensure that unofficial packaged binaries wouldn't use the official cloud service, since the plugin bazaar uses the official cdn, which is actually not a small amount of traffic cost, but that pr was rejected.
Condolences! Fortunately, my own Lua experience has entirely been real-fun Lua instead of real-business Lua.
Show HN: Map with an LLM
Christmas project from a personal need to find ideal locations.
Cross platform doesn't mean every single platform, and it is not common of terminals supporting android
LOL. I edited that sentence out.
> Doesn't explain what regulations Visa pushed for and got which helped it maintain its monopoly.

Visa, the organization, is little more than a small clearing house. Credit card issuers (banks) and credit card processors (also banks) define the network in so far as determining what organizations can be "on the visa rails" (also almost exclusively banks).
so, what is your comment trying to add to the conversation apart from your imaginary expectations? have you read the article?
Doesn't Discover have agreements with UnionPay and JCB?
It’s hard to know what they hope to accomplish with this bill. Anytime you develop custom code, it’s because you need something, well, custom.

What are the chances that something custom built for one agency is going to be at all useful to the custom needs of another agency?
It's important to use the correct names for things. Using the boolean lingo AND/OR/XOR to describe distance function operations just creates confusion. For example in this case, getting the distance to whichever closer surface is not an AND operation. It's a UNION operation, including the surfaces from both objects. Even if using the boolean lingo, it's more like the OR operation, cube OR sphere. It's best to use the set lingo UNION/INTERSECTION/DIFFERENCE.
> even in a high-level dynamic language that doesn't care much about perf

Lua is mostly used inside games, and the JIT compilers for it are said to be pretty good. (I haven't tried this yet, but will have to soon.)
This would have been useful to me 10 years ago when I was trying to get my hands on Ghidra within channels.
Deep Dive into Chromium: Analysis from Architecture Design to Core Code
https://www.mathacademy.com/ for learning math through spaced repetition.

https://www.smart-biology.com/ for learning biology visually.

Also, the 3D graphics and compiler courses on pikuma
I have now added everything from the awesome-cli list, a few other cli lists on top of suggestions by others. This should now make cli.club one of the most comprehensive cli lists on the internet.
Are you planning to use something online to learn? If so, what?
What's the cynical scam angle for this bill?

If agencies share code, there will be a need for coordination of changes, someone makes extra money in the process? i.e. a small contractor doesn't get the change request because only some big player can handle the complexity of a mutli-agency contract?

The government is full of cronies, this bill was passed because someone has plans to use it to screw us all over.
it is an editorial thing. from the last link

> What company’s past reveals the future of OpenAI?

> Sherwood asked a baker’s dozen of writers to make their best case for what’ll happen to the most important company of 2024: OpenAI.
Thank you for all the hard work you’ve done and for sharing your passion project with us.
That's great. Where are you learning it from?
That reminds me of that infamous Vietnam War era quote: "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B%E1%BA%BFn_Tre

The taiwanese must be pissed at the suggestion.
Yeah, it's not available in the Debian/Ubuntu package managers, but building from source is quite trivial.
That’s cool. These are my expectations. Company 1 wins contract and builds something, key team members are experienced with making and navigating the “process”. Company 2 copy/pastes. They have not performed any work yet but they entered a bid X years later and bring up the years of “mediocre” dev Company 1 has done. There is only existing company 1 work and only hope of company 2. Contracting Officer chooses company 2 because promises sound good!

Reality, company 2 wins on cost and doesn’t understand the context of what was built or the environment it was built in. They don’t understand the costs as they didn’t pay them. Company 2 quickly proposes “full rewrite!” Lower cost labor they brought in can’t perform and quality degrades till we have (insert Gov software program here).

Or it doesn’t happen.
You would think some "glue code" around their databases could maybe be shared, or eventually converge. How they handle forms? Something.
This just doesn't seem to work :(

quick-terminal-position=top
quick-terminal-screen=main
quick-terminal-autohide=false
keybind=f9=toggle_quick_terminal

Edit: Joined the discord, turns out this feature is MacOS only :/
Secondary surveillance radar does not depend on tracked aircraft knowing their own position, though.

ADS-B is an augmentation of that, which makes receivers simpler, but ATC generally does not rely on it exclusively (except in some very remote regions), nor on any type of active/cooperative signal or response – if everything else fails (maliciously or accidentally), there's usually primary radar as well.
The thing that made Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers was not that they had a bad business model (the article says so much). It was that they were a central player in a network of financial products that were poorly understood that redistributed risk in a way even less understood. So when the music stopped markets froze because nobody knew who was solvent and who wasn't.

Hard to see what the equivalent in the OpenAI scenario is. Presumably when the music stops a bunch of VCs lose their shirts, the three trillion companies become ordinary trillion dollar companies and silicon valley moves on to look for the next big thing. Probably way more comparable to the dotcom bust.
That's definitely me. I'm generally not social, but I love clubbing, dancing and raves. Not just the music (top reason) or the physical aspect, but all the chatting with randoms too. I love the bullshit we talk, the temporary friendships and the places you find yourself at 5am. (and if anyone's wondering, nope, just alcohol)

But I can go once and be good for months. See friends a few times a year as well, and I'm sorted.

This is hard to explain, but I think it's about "who you are/how you see yourself". As if there's a tension in my head, "am I my thoughts, or am I how other people see me?" When I have been more social recently, I ruminate less and am generally happier, but I feel I lose a bit of "depth" in my psyche. I just feel kind of "thin", like a minor character in a TV show. Though writing that, maybe that's just depression trying to pull me back in.
Apple Terminal has a lot of problems. As others have mentioned, it lacks support for 24 bit color, enforces minimum contrast ratios without any ability to disable them (meaning you cannot set arbitrary color themes), is hopelessly bad at Unicode rendering (particularly with multi-codepoint graphemes, see [1]), and in general misbehaves in other myriad ways [2][3][4].

With both Ghostty and iTerm2 now freely available, there's really no reason to use Terminal.app.

[1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/grapheme-clusters-in-terminals

[2]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/26093

[3]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/28776

[4]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/28453
I've never been able to distinguish this from simply being shy. More shyness means more stress in certain social interactions and stress is tiring.

Moreover, I'm pretty sure you could take the most extroverted person around and take them out of their social element and they too would tire out.

And vice versa, some of the most introverted people don't get tired out by their spouse.
by arguing the need to be sharing code (despite it not being the logical thing to do), you end up with (sub)contractors who will have more work to do to comply, and to make an otherwise simple system more complex by virtue of having to shove two separate systems together in one, so that they could be shared between agencies!
Does this support the non-standard key-press, key-release, etc. events proposal by kitty project? They are necessary for nicer terminal UI projects.
Prison has been proven to be a horrible idea (Stanford prison experiment) that turns normal people into monsters. The whole thing needs to be abolished.

Call me crazy, but the golden rule should be applied to all people. “Do to others what you would have them do to you”

I believe that if someone needs to be separated from others because they are dangerous or insane, the government should be obligated to say “this is what I would want done to me”, and treat them as such the entire time. Raw Punishment is asinine and insane, especially when the average person doesn’t even believe politicians who make the law are the most virtuous citizens.
interesting, thanks for sharing!
I am a happy konsole user. I have bookmarked all the tabs relevant to my project, in a folder. As soon as I start konsole, I open the folder in tabs.

Then as a ritual (and a bit of OCD), I quickly cycle through all the tabs with Shift-Right Arrow once.
You won't have to spend very much time. It's a very small language.
Note the AUR package was removed because it's since been packaged in the official Arch repos.

There is a ghostty-git AUR repo for tracking the main branch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ghostty-git
Hasn’t Suse been KDE by default since… as long as I can remember? Debian defaults to GNOME but it lets you pick the DE in the installer IIRC (haven’t installed Debian in a long time since I just use it for servers). Last I heard, Fedora is making KDE an official supported DE. You’re also leaving out other popular user-centric distros like Mint which don’t use either DE (toolkit it GTK but the UX paradigms makes it so just about any toolkit means that it’ll look & feel right on Cinnamon).
How does this affect exploits?
some slippery slope arguments are stupid, such as yours.

Obviously you keep personnel records private (unless there's some law/court case requiring it be open). Classified material is already classified, and is kept private regardless - but there's a good argument to be made that there ought to be automatic declassification of material after a set amount of time (perhaps 20-30 years). Declassifying material is good for the public, as the ability to audit the past prevents future abuses.
These questions were argued at length since time immemorial, and we have in modern times reached some sort of conclusion, most famously defined in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United States Declaration of Independence.

If you want to reject those documents (and more), that is your choice. But if you want to argue against them, you will have to do better than that.
The reason that this is common is that a company hires a SOC2 consultant who tells them that PR reviews are required despite that fact that this is a complete fabrication.

Locking yourself into an enormously expensive process with no evidence of its efficacy just because you don't want read up on the process yourself or push back on a misinformed auditor is a terrible business decision.
I do not think an AI crash will come close to the damage the mortgage crisis of 2008 did.

But, I agree a crash is coming and it will probably mirror the dot-com crash. The only question is Nvidia, I think Nvidia has potential to cause a lot of pain.
Yes, that’s surely why Fortran never found any widespread adoption and remained an obscure, niche language.
This is very valuable! Thank you!
I remember playing around with Print Shop Deluxe on my parent's PC in the early 90s. I don't recall the hardware, but it may have been either an XT clone or a 286/386. I was too young to remember what it was.

We had a dot matrix printer too and oh did I enjoy printing out the various included graphics and peeling the perforated strips off the edges so I could show the results to everyone. The palm tree graphics were my favorite.

WinWorldPC has a nice collection if anyone is itching to fire up an 86Box VM to revisit the software:

https://winworldpc.com/product/the-print-shop/deluxe-win
Interesting paper, thanks for sharing! Whenever I see physics-based inverse design using ML surrogates, I always ask, “why not optimize the problem directly” (and eg compute the gradient using an adjoint-variable method)? The paper implies that the forward simulation process isn’t differentiable, but is this true? Thanks!
I think it would help if there were more information about it, along with demos, to clearly communicate what it's about. At the moment I'm still confused because I see Ghostty has gotten so much attention, and I'm not clear why it's special.

I am sold thanks to the author's authenticity, but if I had not seen this, I wouldn't know what I'm looking at. So I think it would be very helpful if there were more info on the landing page.
> Under the law, agency chief information officers are required to develop policies within 180 days of enactment that implement the act. Those policies need to ensure that custom-developed code aligns with best practices, establish a process for making the metadata for custom code publicly available, and outline a standardized reporting process.

> Per the new law, metadata includes information about whether custom code was developed under a contract or shared in a repository, the contract number, and a hyperlink to the repository where the code was shared.

Sadly it doesn't sound like the law requires agencies to make the code publicly open source, it just requires inter-agency sharing (bill full text [1]). They only need to share "metadata" publicly.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9566...
> Like any other skill, you get better at it with practice!

Johnny Carson was an introvert. [0]

If he could be a professional-calibre conversationalist, then I refuse to believe most introverted people can't at least reach the passable cocktail party level.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Carson#Personal_life
I really enjoyed this post quite abit, and it’s a topic that I and many developers have discussed concerning good abstractions. This isn’t directly related to the article it’s self, but to the website minds.md. I was surprised to see it seems like a blogging platform for various authors but I didn’t see any information about where to upload or who runs this service. It mentions GitHub but doesn’t seem to link to it on the home page. Just curious to know more about this site and if it’s for anyone or a specific group of people?
The entire carbon removal "industry" is a dangerous joke. None of the systems and proposals are able deliver anything even remotely approximating planetary-scale CO2 mitigation without side effects in a range between making things worse and killing or destroying entire ecosystems. Not to mention requiring more energy, materials and resources than the planet might be able to provide. And nobody ever answers the question about violating some of the most basic laws of physics in the process.

So long as money keeps flowing into this ridiculous industry and politicians keep using FUD to drive their voter-base, the flow of nonsensical non-solution will not stop.

It is inevitable that, at some point in the future, people will finally understand reality for what it is.

As an example, it has taken around twenty years for people to finally start understanding the scale of the energy problem we have in order to support full electrification of ground transportation. And now, with AI data centers likely doubling that requirement, this is finally leading to the --surprise!-- conclusion that nuclear power is a necessary solution. I have been brutalized here on HN in the past for daring to (years ago) bring-up the simple math related to the EV problem. Today we are at a point where the issue is starting to float to the surface. That took about twenty years. The math was the same back then. It's just that people refuse to think past what is being shoved into their heads from every angle.

The next bridge to cross is the carbon removal scam. It will take time. I get it. People will eventually understand. I just hope we don't do irreparable damage to entire ecosystems between now and then.
That's my first thought. The NSA and CIA probably have all sorts of in-house developed source for all sorts of evil things that they sure won't be sharing.
I had print shop as a 10-15 year old and made all my own and many of my families birthday, anniversary and Christmas cards with it. I was the "computer guy" in my household and was therefore entrusted with this duty. I also printed advertisements for lawn mowing services, jewelry my brother and I made and sold in consignment shops, lost dogs for neighbors, playbills, schedules, wedding invitations. All printed on a dot matrix printer.

Printshop and early computer magazines with two-three pages of examples code I would type into qbasic are the reason I'm in this career.
This is a strawman.

Not the parent, but I'm pretty sure that their intent is that it's the default that should be flipped. At the moment, all agencies default to confidential, and only share their work in particular cases; the proposed change would be of making all the work transparent unless explicitly classified.

As a good example of how this approach is implemented, see Gitlab, which share pretty much everything except personal data of their employees and customers.
I think some OLED displays don't have backlights?

On manipulating the backlight to display a dark scene more power-efficiently: my TV that does this, if there's a small region of constant color (e.g. a TV station's logo) its brightness wavers noticeably as the rest of the scene changes.
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In the very early history of computing, it was still belived that copyright did not apply to computer programs. What large companies, like IBM, did was to require all customers to first sign a contract where the customer was forbidden, among many other things, to spread or copy the software.
Looks like there are a few deps needed:

sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev git

Otherwise you'll get this error:

error: unable to spawn glib-compile-resources: FileNotFound
Build Summary: 78/83 steps succeeded; 2 failed (disable with --summary none)
install transitive failure
└─ install ghostty transitive failure
└─ zig build-exe ghostty ReleaseFast native transitive failure
├─ run glib-compile-resources (ghostty_resources.c) failure
└─ run glib-compile-resources (ghostty_resources.h) failure
error: the following build command failed with exit code 1:
/home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty/.zig-cache/o/57acb02f2b1ccf1b03b9597a8c5f2d09/build /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0/zig /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty/.zig-cache /home/tlhunter/.cache/zig --seed 0xb4306e7d -Z11426c6f3a70c8b9 -Doptimize=ReleaseFast

```

I'm quite surprised they don't provide a .deb package as that checks off 90% of Linux users.
That was Pangaea. Not very hospitable. Most of it were deserts, receiving little humidity because it was too far from the ocean.
I'm interested for different reasons related to some open source projects I help maintain.
> It's one of those things that you don't realize how poor the performance is until you experience something better.

No, it’s one of those things I’ve tested myself extensively and arrived at my own conclusion. Which I already mentioned in the comment you responded to.
Same. I have been using this in Yakuake since 5 years but I never knew it was called a "quake mode"
I would say the Odin Project is another high-quality resource without a hidden agenda.
A Japanese language course at the community college after getting sort of burned out on apps and Anki decks. Hoping I can make friends with some native speakers, or at least other students interested in practice.